Research Strategies in the Social Sciences A Guide to New Approaches [Hardcover]

In this single, accessible volume, a team of international experts sets out a range of analytic tools available to social scientists from the cutting edge of social science methodology. In contrast to much existing literature, which is often of daunting complexity, this volume presents social scientists with some experience with a guide through the maze of advanced techniques applicable across the range of the social sciences.

1. Introduction,Elinor Scarbrough and Eric Tanenbaum
2. Research Strategies in the New Environment,Eric Tanenbaum and Elinor Scarbrough
PART 1: ANALYSES ACROSS OBSERVATIONS
3. Ordinary Least Squares and Logistic Regression Analysis,David Sanders and Malcolm Brynin
4. Linear Structural Equation Models,Steffen Kuhnel
5. Categorical Data Analysis: Log-Linear and Latent Class Models,Allan McCutcheon and Colin Mills
6. Modelling Context and Heterogeneity: Applying Multilevel Models,Kelvyn Jones and Craig Duncan
PART 2: ANALYSES ACROSS TIME
7. It's About Time: Modelling Political and Social Dynamics,Harold D. Clarke, Helmut Norpoth, and Paul Whiteley
8. Cointegration and Modelling the Long Run,Simon Price
9. Modelling Space and Time: The Event History Approach,Nathaniel Beck
PART 3: NEW PERSPECTIVES
10. The Glass Bead Game: Testing Game-Theoretical Models,Hugh Ward
11. Political Analysis in a World Without Foundations,Bobby Sayyid and Lilian Zac
12. Discourse Theory and Political Analysis,David Howarth